id: 159163 accession number: 1995.351 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.351 updated: 2023-12-08 21:50:52.538000 Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes, mid to late 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Bronze; diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee 1995.351 title: Lobed Mirror with Heaven and Earth between the Paired Phoenixes title in original language: 雙鳳上圓下方葵花鏡 series: series in original language: creation date: mid to late 700s creation date earliest: 700 creation date latest: 799 current location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork creditline: Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee copyright: --- culture: China, Tang dynasty (618-907) technique: bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Tang Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 上圓下方,象于天地。 中列八填,備著陰陽。 辰星鎮定,日月貞明。 周流為水,以名四瀆。 內置連山,以旌王岳。 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00 Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000); China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (February 6-June 2, 2002); Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (December 20, 2003-February 29, 2004). title: La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre opening date: 2010-03-29T00:00:00 La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 29-July 5, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, ?-1995, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1995 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1995-present date: 1995- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chou, Ju-hsi. Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 69, pp. 75-76 and 121 url: Cahill, Suzanne E. "The Moon Stopping in the Void: Daoism and the LIterati Ideal in Mirrors of the Tang Dynasty." .Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 9 (2005): 24-41. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 38, fig.15 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079751 Delacour, Catherine. La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'être : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010. page number: Reproduced: pp. 136-137, cat. 11.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.351/1995.351_full.tif